Articles on Leadership, and Coaching
I’m a Detroit guy and I like cars, especially fast cars, and nowadays they have computer chips you can install that make your car go faster. Imagine that, just plug in a chip and press on the accelerator and vroooom! I’m also an agile coach and I see patterns. With most every agile transformation I […]
I see a lot of confusion around velocity in new-to-agile teams. Too many people treat velocity as an acceleration measurement. That is, they expect velocity to increase to some large number, as a stable state. via DZone Agile Zone http://ift.tt/1XSXSIO
Learn more about transforming people, process and culture with the Real Agility ProgramValerie Senyk I like taking notes when I’m learning. I believe it helps me to retain what I’m hearing, although I have no solid proof to back that up. March 9, 2016, I took advantage of a free webinar offered by the Scrum […]
As a manager, asking this question scared me a little. I posed it to each of the engineers on my team last month in our one-on-one’s and I worried about how they would respond. Did they feel safe enough to answer honestly or would I get fluff answers that side-stepped the question? Imagine my surprise […]
An agile team that finds its groove is a precious thing. A group of smart diverse people, passionate about their shared purpose, openly collaborating and continually experimenting can do amazing things. They don’t need managing in the traditional sense so what can leaders/managers who work with these teams do to help them? Don’t Tell, Ask […]
While surfing a thread about a potential job change in Reddit’s /r/cscareerquestions (DISCLOSURE: I’m a mod), I read the following comment: "There is no such thing as ruining a career by switching jobs too often" At the time this was the most upvoted comment in the thread, which troubled me because it is rather poor […]
Early in my career, I noticed the project managers in my company drove nicer cars than we programmers did. (This was back before companies had learned to fully value their technical staff.) After a few years of noticing those nicer cars, I asked my boss what I needed to do to become a project manager. […]
You have more influence than you realize. via HBR.org http://ift.tt/1PWeVFU
Don’t be too businesslike or too quirky. via HBR.org http://ift.tt/1MbAOzV
This post was brought to you by Somewhere, the visual platform for sharing what you do and seeing how the world works. “Being able to be truly happy at work is one of the keys to being happy in life”, says Heidi Golledge, the CEO and cofounder of CareerBliss. However, happiness doesn’t just give employees the […]